Overshoe holder



May 22, 1923.

W. DALBERG OVERSHOE HOLDER Filed Feb.

l5 1921 2 Sheets-Sheet 1 n ANI 7:9 INVENTOR ATTORNEY WITNSSFS May 22,1923.

1,456,364 W. DALBERG OVERSHOE HOLDER Filed Feb. l5, 1921 2 Sheets-Sheet2 WITNBSES Patented May 2,2, 1923.

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Application filed February 15,1921; Serial lNo.'445,205.` f

To @ZZ who-m amai/'concern' f Be it-"known that-I,I WILLIAM DALBERG, a

citizen i of the United" States, residing at Deary, in the county ofLatah'and State of 5 Idaho, haveinventednew `and useful Im'- provementsvin Overshoe Holders, off which the following -is'- a specification.

An objectof this invention is the production of simple, cheap andeilicientmeans lo for holding an'overshoe on a walking'shoe. Other'objects will present themselves as thel nature of the invention isbetterunder'- stood, reference being had to the'a'ccompany-` ingdrawings.

In the drawingsz--v v Y l Figure l is aview illustrating the applicationV.ofthe improvement. 'l Figure 2 lis a perspectivey view of theimprovement.A lf Figure 3 is a vview of the blank fromfwhich Figure e isa View' of the. blank from which the slide is formed. v

Figure 9 is a detail sectional view on the line 9 9 of Figure 5.

In the preferred embodiment of the im provement, illustrated in Figures1 to 3 of the drawings, the body of the overshoe holder is constructedfrom a single strip of suitable material, metal preferred.

As disclosed in Figure 3 of the drawings, the strip 1, near the endsthereof is bulged or punched outwardly so that when the 40 strip is bentcentrally upon itself to provide the spring arms 2 and 3, the convertedbulge-d portion 4 on the arm 2 will be received in the concavityprovided bythe bulged portion 5 of the arm 8. Thus the element 4providesra head and the bulged portion 5 provides a socket to receivethe head.

The strip 1. on the arm'2 thereof is slotted transversely andlongitudinally, and the metal bounded by the said slot is bent outwardlyforming a bendable fingerv 6.

The arm 3 is provided with an elongated slot 7 that is designed to alignwith the slot 8 from which the vfinger 6 has been projected. In theseregistering slots is the shank 9 of a rivet. The opposite ends.v of therivet are headed 'V'The arms 2 and 3 normally assume an fov'utwardAangle, away'fromfeachfother from the centrally bent portion to the stripfrom which the .arms extend, andit.y is manifest thatby.

f sliding the headed* stud 9 outwardly, i orv through the `free end ofthe arms 2 and 3, the' said arms lwill be' brought togetheigfsothatgthejhead'ed element '4' ofthe arm 2?' will beV received in'Lthepocketl 5 of the arm-3; By this arrangement the oversho'e 11 lcan beeifctivelyl clampedv Abetween the arms 2 an' rI'he finger 6fis bentonitself,as at 12,- a'nd continued'substantially in' the/plane oftheportionthereof which 'is connected to the strip,v so that the outer endof the finger-thus provides a hoolr'l?. Thishook is designed i to beYbrought over the upper edge of a;

shoey y14l asillustrated `in Figurel of the drawings. 'Y '7 .iv f Asthe' stripifis comparatively 'long and"l as the linger 6 isbendable sothat the hook? may be formed onl variouspartsthereof,lit

willbe seen that the device is of an adjustable nature, so that it willefficiently support or hold overshoes on walking shoes of variousheights. i l l yIn Figure 4 of the drawings, the overshoeengagingelement may be substantially similar to that previouslydescribed, the same including spaced arms 15 and 16. Thearrns 15 and 16,asis true of the arms 2 and 3, in reality provide the jaws for the bodymember of the device. Swiveled on the con*- necting element for thearm-s 15 and 16is a flexible ,element such `as a chain 18, andthe i saidchain has at its outer end a hook 19l that is designed to be arrangedover the top of the walking shoe.

In the remaining figures of the drawings, the finger 20 is'constructedfroma flat piece of metal and has one of its ends 'bent upon itself toprovide a tongue 21 that is designed to be arranged over the top of ashoe. TheL plate 20 is provided with a longitudinal slot 23, the wallsof which having' opposed transverse notches 24. f

Theovershoe holder is constructed of ,a strand of spring metal toinclude parallel arms 25 and a rounded connecting portion 26 for thearms. The arms are designed to exert a tension away from eachother andVare both provided with elongated longitudinal slots 28. The arms 25,outward of the slots, and adjacent to the ends thereof are formed one,on its inner face with a lug 29 and thel other with a hole 30 to receivethe arms when the latter are forced toward each other.

The numeral 3l designates a slide' for com- 83 and 84 respectively. Thetongue 34 is` of a materially less length thanthe tongue 3,8, the' saidtongue 33 having adjacentthe end thereof a lateral enlargement provid--ing a disk-like head, The body 32'fis de'-` sgned to be bent on thescore lines 36', Eigure8, over the sides of the arms 25. The tongues arepassed through the slots 28 in the arms, the head 35 being arranged onthe lower arm 25 transversely of the slot 28 therein.r The remainingportions of the tongue 33 are then bent upwardly through the slots, andthe tongue 34 is bent down- Wardly through. the slots. It ,Willlbeapparent that by moving the slide toward the connected end 26 of thearms 25, the armsv Will spread-away lfrom each other and by moving thesaid slide in an opposite direc,- tion the arms will bek forced towardeach other. f l

Securedto one of the arms 25, at the-body` end` 26 thereof. is one armof a `lJ-shaped member 36, the second arm 37 exerting a springtensionagainst the vsecond arm 25. The plate or inger 20 may be Vturned rightangularly to the U-shaped member, When the latter is arranged in one ofthe notches.

24, and the said Vplate moved to arrange the U-shaped member in any ofthe other notches 24, and in this manner, the overshoe holder isadjusted With respect to the shoe proper. v

Having describedthe invention, I claim vz,

In aV means for holding.; an overshoe on a shoe, a plate provided with alongitudinal slotdisposed through` its center thereof, the walls of saidslotvhaving opposed transverse notches Vforming rounded aperturesthereby, a tongue providedl at one` end of said plate andy formedthereon byrsaidend beingbent upon itselffaU-shaped rnem-` ber adjustablysecured to the OPpOStejendv of said plate, a .strip which iscentrallybent upon itself to ,provide angularly disposedresilient jaws,a lug disposed on the inner face of one of the jaws, a cup-shaped depression formed onthe other vjaw and designed to-receive said lug,slidable adj-usting means between the jaws contacting with` theV outerfaces thereof, said U-shaped mem-y n ber having one of its arms secured.to said strip and its, other arm engaging lthe lbodyv portion of saidstrip yforthe purpose speciT` fied. 4

In testimony ywhereof.Ialix my ,signature.

WILLIAM DALBE'RG. n f

